Born 1977

Lives and works in New York City

Education

Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts MFA Painting 2004

Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
BA Liberal Arts 2000

Statement

The process of defining limits is the objective of the painting, or is to that sense, the visual expression of the limits that live within us and that we, in turn, must live among. When I make a mark it represents nothing more or less than a movement from light to not-light. There or not-there. Such are the days and nights that by increment comprise the duration of a life. I'm skeptical of definitions, but I do agree with Robert Creeley's definition of tradition: an aspect of what anyone is now thinking - not what someone once thought. So one thing leads to another, as they say, and I can say this of my own interaction with paint and canvas as I tape, sand, layer, and breathe with the work. The conversation continues in no uncertain terms, darting here or there, through and by obstacles and forms, meaning and its various degrees. Whatever making is, I can't say, but I know what it does and continues to do. The sky's the limit.